There widespread consensus that edge computing will be a key piece of opening up latency-sensitive 5G applications like autonomous vehicles and augmented and virtual reality. Where there’s not widespread consensus is around who will build out distributed computing infrastructure–will the telcos leverage real estate holdings to build out the edge; is it an opportunity for new players to provide compute-as-a-service; or can traditional data center players de-centralize their expertise to serve a new set of use cases?
